World Press Photo Contest 2019 – the nominees

The World Press Photo Foundation has unveiled its global photojournalism prize nominees for 2019. Here are some of the finalists’ images, in categories from the environment to sport. The winners will be announced in April

Photo of the year nominee: being pregnant after Farc child-bearing ban, by Catalina Martin-Chico

Yorladis is pregnant for the sixth time, after five other pregnancies were terminated during her Farc years in Colombia. She says she managed to hide the fifth pregnancy from her commander until the sixth month by wearing loose clothes. Yorladis and her partner live in a house in a temporary camp in Colinas

Photo of the year nominee: Almajiri Boy, by Marco Gualazzini

An orphaned boy walks past drawings on a wall depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. This image was also nominated as part of a set in the ‘photo story of the year’ and ‘environment story’ categories